Aquino son surges ahead in rating
Senator Benigno Aquino III, son of the late former President Corazon and Senator Benigno "Ninoy" Aquino, flashes the "laban" (fight) sign during a memorial prayer assembly in honour of them at Manila's Makati financial district August 21, 2009. REUTERS
MANILA, Sunday
Senator Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino, son of the Philippines’ popular former President Corazon “Cory” Aquino, has surged ahead of other presidential candidates in the latest opinion poll, media reports said today.
In a survey done by the Social Weather Stations (SWS) on 1,200 respondents a few days before Mr Aquino’s September 9 announcement that he will run for president in the May 2010 election, Aquino got 50 per cent, the ABS-CBN network said on its website.
The survey was conducted on September 5-6 on the main Luzon island, from Pangasinan province in the north down to central Luzon and Southern Tagalog regions, including the national capital region.
The survey was commissioned by business groups after the leader of the Liberal Party, Senator Manuel “Mar” Roxas II, gave way to Aquino to be the party’s standard bearer in the national and local elections next May. (Reuters)
